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AccidentalLemming@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

White noise podcasts are costing Spotify $38m per year, and record labels are not happy about it

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White noise podcasts are costing Spotify $38m per year, and record labels are not happy about it

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AccidentalLemming@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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Spotify Looked to Ban White Noise Podcasts to Become More Profitable
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An internal document shows that white noise podcasts account for 3 million daily consumption hours on the platform
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    are you old?

    with time it gets naturally impossible to hear those differences

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        Bit depth affects noise floor, not frequency range.

        You are correct that the noise floor of 16 bit is well within the limits of human hearing, making 24 bit redundant outside of production.

        Spotify maxes out at 256k, so you’re just wrong there.

        https://support.spotify.com/us/article/audio-quality/

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